ANGLICAN PRAYER BOOK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 276, 26 October 1925, Page 6

ANGLICAN PRAYER BOOK.

THE PRIMATE ON REVISION. AUCKLAND. Oct. 23. Referring to the possibility of a revision of the Prayer Book, Archbishop Averill stated in his charge to the Diocesan Swnod that as tilings were only a revision approved by the Bishops of England, the Church Assembly, and Parliament, and which received tho Royal Assent, would he possible. "What that hook would be was beyond tho wit of man to imagine in view of the many discordant voices clamouring to be heard. It was a fact sometimes overlooked that should an alternative Prayer Book bo agreed upon and published it would not necessarily supersede the present Prayer Book, and it would be lawful for any church to remain in statu quo as far as it was concerned. * “We need a revised Prayer Bock, particularly a revision of the occasional offices,” he said, “and we can hardly expect that a Prayer Book revised in the seventeenth century would satisfy all our requirements in tho twentieth century. It is well that we should prepare ourselves carefully for tlie important task, and try to realise fundamental .truths, namely, that uniformity is not essential to unity; that we may be united in essentials, and that the presence or absence of ceremonial cannot in itself change the ultimate value of Divine truth.”